Frédéric Adolphe Cavens (30 August 1882, Laeken, Belgium – 30 April 1962, Woodland Hills, California) was a Belgian-born fencing master who emigrated to Hollywood and worked as an actor, stuntman and fencing master from the silent film era, then in television.^[1][2] He trained Jean Peters in the film Anne of the Indies (1951) and Guy Williams in the television role of Zorro.

Cavens was married to Elizabeth Francoise Saymons (1886–1971); they were the parents of Albert Frederic Rene Cavins, who followed in his father's footsteps.

Filmography

Complete filmography^[3]

Director (feature film)

• The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) as Assistant Director

Cast (feature film)

Dance (feature film)

• The Three Musketeers (1935) as Dance arr.

Film Production - Main (feature film)

• Queen Christina (1933) as Sword fight staging by
• Cardinal Richelieu (1935) as Research dir
• Romeo and Juliet (1936) as Created and staged duels and sword fights
• Tower of London (1939) as Fencing instructor
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) as Fencing dir.
• The Black Swan (1942) as Fencing instructor
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) as Fencing instructor
• Don Ricardo Returns (1946) as Fencing instructor
• Forever Amber (1947) as Technical Advisor
• The Black Arrow (1948) as Fencing master
• Bagdad (1949) as Technical Advisor
• Adventures of Don Juan (1949) as Fencing instructor
• Buccaneer's Girl (1950) as Fencing instructor
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1951) as Fencing master
• Anne of the Indies (1951) as Jean Peters' fencing instructor
• Lydia Bailey (1952) as Fencing instructor.
• Dreamboat (1952) as Clifton Webb's fencing instructor
• Son of Ali Baba (1952) as Fencing coach
• The Mississippi Gambler (1953) as Fencing tech adv.
• The Robe (1953) as Fencing instructor
• Casanova's Big Night (1954) as Supv of dueling scenes
• The Vagabond King (1956) as Technical Advisor